> In another video, Brandon's Tesla was making a left turn but wasn't turning sharply enough to avoid hitting a car parked on the opposite side of the cross street. "Oh Jeeeesus," Brandon said as he grabbed the steering wheel and jerked it to the left. "Oh my God," Brandon's passenger added.
Maybe it's just me, but this screams clickbait and low effort. The overall article is fine, but I nearly stopped reading after this. Is this kind of writing really necessary nowadays?
> OOOOH MY GOOOOSH! - Data scientist REACTS to possible DATA BREACH by HAXORS
... I doubt it would help highlight the need for security. On a more general level, I personally don't think it's worth to trade reputation for attention via clickbait. But it might be the better option, I honestly don't know.
Imagine BuzzFeed would start to warn about a serious issue - sure, they get the attention, but with their reputation is going to be hard to get people to take their point seriously. And I hate to see ArsTechnica going in this direction.
Not on HN usually.